Here is a funny hack. Replace letters in start menu with system time. It is very simple. For this, a small freeware is needed. At first, get it from here.

Download this cool freeware to your hard drive and install it. This program replaces the word ‘Start’ with the clock.

Have a look at a few small, handy things which aren’t part of windows. The first one will be Sticky Notes-the virtual equivalent of writing down tasks and reminders on paper and sticking somewhere around you. If you need this with Windows XP, you have to download and install freeware. But, you can use sticky notes in Windows XP without installing a third party tool.

It will take only five simple steps. Let’s do this in any computer within a few minutes by a simple trick. I thing this sticky notes will be an unavoidable tool in your office computers.

We can boost the performance of windows XP by prohibiting one of Windows XP’s annoying habits. After an application is closed, XP leaves the associated DLL files in the memory. This can hog precious resources and memory, and also cause stability problems. Make the DLLs unload themselves from memory after the program is done running.

For getting things done, do these simple steps.

Usually Windows XP tracks recent documents and it appears in the Recent Documents menu in the Start menu. This helps us to easily access our pervious documents. But sometimes this will be a threat to our privacy when two or more people using the same computer. So if you want, you can easily turn off this service by a simple registry hack.

Care must be taken while editing the windows registry.

Follow these steps to do our work.

In windows XP, any program can be launched using the keyboard by assigning a shortcut key to it.

Right click the program to which you want to a shortcut key. In properties, under the shortcut tab, “shortcut key” is by default, “none”. Just click in the box and chose an alphanumeric key to be assigned as the shortcut key. Windows will assign [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [(alphanumeric key)] as the short cut key.

Usually we do not use DOS commands in Windows XP. Knowledge in DOS is not needed for operating Windows XP. But we can do some special kind of activities such as enabling some services and programs in windows XP and removing some viruses. Basic knowledge in DOS commands will help us to use windows XP more efficiently. Here are some useful DOS commands.

Sometimes the Show desktop icon in the quick launch bar goes missing. But we can recreate the Show desktop icon manually. Open a notepad and copy the following into notepad:

[Shell]

Command=2

IconFile=explorer.exe,3

[Taskbar]

Command=ToggleDesktop

Save this file as “Show Desktop.scf”, and then drag it to the Quick Launch bar. The Show Desktop icon should now visible in the Quick Launch bar.

A keyboard shortcut can also do it for you. You can show desktop using [Windows] + [D].